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Chicago examiner i'.s u rlsntomc price two gl~riÂ£'_%3bm tuesday Chicago january 1 1918 tuefcuai vol xyt xo j a m *"*â€¢'* hhb â€¢*? m * * >-\ ~"^ kaiser sends peace rade army gets machine guns next summer ie delay if untried browning j eapon fails crozier admits t inquiry cost 2,500,000.1 ly'll be ready in time fori feace hitchcock's comment i hwder plant delay is shown : h ashington dec 31 ma chine guns for the american Â»â€¢ array will be ready july 1 one year and three months after the ilnolaraiion of war they will not be delivered in any considerable attty until the middle of septem 1 r rnoleh rifle's to supply every in â– a*m and in hie training amps are promised by february 15 thil is hie net result of the jong . . re err ir tlie war department over t:ie merits of various types of machine guns the decision to adopt the un'ried browning gun in place of those used in europe and the dis cardinp of the springfield rifle for the en held geneial william crozier until re cently head of the bureau of ord nance n.ade tuese admissions to-day while tifying before the senate inilitar affairs committee ready in time for peace " says hitchcock e american army runs we may be s of peace com litchcock of ne ing general c'ro clmilted that there ich will postpone i beyond the dates d also that if the id fail to stand up have to be used would have to be ice the merits of the neral crozier said id purchased the ht to manufacture jer of these guns - admitted how had been accepted d that there prob considerable im lsses delay k tried to find out rtment at the be ir did not award s which were in er than experiment is reply was that the s unÂ«er examina ir was declared and sd the department gun obtainable ring the lewis gun id approved by the which had given " persisted senator did not the army also le that we would le supply of other 1 crozier's reply continued senator colonel lewis re discouragement in cud that the war ipent 2,000,000 on i which has never hile he had to de 18 calls u.s to supreme work says daniels washington dec 31 sec retary of war baker has issued the following new year's greeting the events of this last year will loom large to the future writer of our country's history there is given to us an oppor tunity that will not come again to make the story of the com ing year a record worthy of the cause in which our sword is unsheathed secretary of the navy daniels gave out the following greeting the year 1918 makes the supreme call upon the courage and efficiency of the ameri can people victory for the american ideal of free govern ment cannot fail but early and permanent peace will be se cured only by the full mobiliza tion of men and resources there must be but one in dustry in 1918 winning of the war there must be â€” there will be no thought of self no desire for profit no holding back of all we have in money and men lakes to build 400,000 tons hurley to ask hundreds of mil lions more for ships 11,000 000 tons by end of 1919 avashin'gton dec 31 â€” edward \". hurley chairman of the shipping noard next week will ask congress or a few hundred millions more of money for ships he expects to ex eed the billion dollar ship program t is understood plans for 11,000,000 tons of ship ping by the end of 1919 are in con templation and a survey of shipyard facilities to determine the quota from each has been made lakes ol'ota 400,000 tons great lakes shipyards are counted on ifor 400,000 tons expectations from other points are seattle 1 000,000 tons in 191s portland ore 32j,000 tons of wooden ships and 400,000 tons of steel ships san francisco's contribution will be 502,000 tons steel 22,000 concrete and 79,000 wooden while los angeles will add 335.000 tons to the quota of the pacific coast west easter than east on the pacific they are lurning hulls in fifty days while the atlantic yards take two or three times as long the reason for this is that the atlantic shipbuilders are accustomed to constructing battleships which are built with an inspector behind each riveter and without a time limit no such care is required for cargo car riers petrie arrested for a bductinghansengirl henry w petrie the composer was irrested yesterday at the point of a evolver in the office of his attor ney c h mcdermott 110 south dearborn street to-morrow he will ae given a hetning on a charge of ab lucting laura hansen seventeen from her home in elmhurst last july i he was lodged in the wheaton jail last night u.s weather forecast Chicago anij vici.vitv â€” geuer nlly fulr i'ii scl:i and probably wedne*dnj kloivlj rising trmpern tnre \\ indih becoming moderate aouth crlj tuesday temperaturb i'or twenty-four knurs encinc 2 a r : highest 20 lowest 10 menu 15 normal temperature for the day 3 deficitrcy since january 1 043 decrees prrciiiitatio^i for tventy-four hours 04 inch deficiency eince junuai-y 1 8.02 indies ui'latiie humidity 7 a ni 80 2p m 73 7 ' l'arunii'tric pressure reduced to son level : 7 a m o.:-v 7 p in 30.36 flunriso to-day w-xv sunset 4:o0 complete weather repoit on page 23 m addo picks hale hplden to run roads dissolves railway board and centers its power in hands of burlington head Chicago man p 1 virtually assures brotherhoods of wage increase abolishes pri ority and starts cojal moving washington dec 31 railroad director mcadoo dissolve sd the rail way war board to-day 11 e named his own advisory board t ' him rup the railroads 1 of the courltry a tg with dissolution ot the rlailway r board went abolition oi pjiorities the director general ivciund up his days work with an invormal an nouncement that he intended to raise wages of railroad employee only one of the railroad jexecutiv.-s on the railway war board i was car ried into mr mcadoo's j advisri y board this was hale hold jen presi dent of the burlington lie will be the single head of the operating or ganization that the railwaylwar board brought into existence hie other members of the advisory ho:krd are john skei.to.v william comp troller of the treasury who will con cern himself with mltread ; ijnrncc henry walters clia i-mnn f the atlantic coast line irsti will lie assigned to transportation jijroblem edward d chambers of the fuel administration vice president and general traffic aumi of the santa fe who will represent ihr food and fuel administration in thd direct or genernl's work walter d hines assisjtant to the railroad director lawt<*fr and chairman of the executive conhmittcc of the santa fe duties unaiiijounccd as yet president alfred h smith li the new york central the other assistant to railroad director mcadoo yill be fcderal supervisor of congestiojn he was not included in the composition of the advisory board priority orders go director mcadoo explained he thought assistant smith ha bis hands full with clearing and k iping the eastern trunk lines open \ along with the dissolution ot the railway war board went the rejoga tidn to subordinate authors priorities board the head of whiten is judge robert lovett priorities blamed by railroad men as one of the contributing causes of the rail.joad tungle ceased to exist if any ibe come necessary mr mcadoo will lasue them personally , every effort will be made to j ive preference to the transportation of coal food and army and navy sup plies but results in this direction will be sought not by handicapping the operation of the roads through priority orders but by clearing sjhe tracks and terminals of unnecessary passenger trains duplicate services held cars and by pooling all railroid equipment and operation pledges decent pay the director general of the rail ways featured among his new leir resolutions plans to give the railroad employes a square deal ee declare they were underpaid \ as one of the first steps toward getting a clear view of employes needs he will confer thursday witlj the brotherhood chiefs they are coming to washington ran his invitation he wants to ask their co-operation and find out from them how he can get the best work there is in the employes he summed ujw his intentions in that respect to-day j in this fashion underpaid men mean 25 per cent decreased efficiency economy is not j in discontented men on under pay | but in contented men on decent pay i mr mcadoo to-night issued gen j british win in furious all day fight cambrai sector positions held j after four attacks scores of teutons are taken prisoner kaiser's troops enter english trenches but are driven out after long stubborn fighting london dec fl â€” the important position of welsh ridge on the south ern portion of the cambrai front je m^ins in british hands to-night after an all-day battle which developed some of the bitterest local fighting of the war the germans yesterday took welsh ridge by storm in a violent attack along a two-mile front field marshal haig to-day launched a brilliant counter attack which re sulted in the recapture of the ridge's important positions with sanguinary losses to the german forces the german troops rallied and launched a new attack to-day to re gain their losses they threw up a curtain of liquid fire and hurled their infantry forward haig's troops withstood the force of the blow and the germans were epelled except in several points where the kaiser's men gained a ten porary foothold later they were ejected stili j-v progress the only points where the germans are now in british trenches are near la vacquerie and immediately south of marcoing haig's counter move ment is still in progress the berlin war office admits brit ish gains but claim they were ob tained only at the cost of heavy losses advance plaa'ders line the british line in flanders has been advanced on both sides of the ypres-staden railway field marshal haig has reported the result of lo cal engagements last night the gains while gradual arc declared to be very important on the ypres front the british made another gain along the ypres-staden railway five german airplanes were de stroyed or put out of commission by the british yesterday castai.ties are lower british casualties for december were the lowest since last august according to a compilation of fig ures this is due to n slowing up of operations caused by weather condi tions losses of 50.034 vere divided as follows officers killed 1,145 wound ed 2,891 missing 483 men killed 14,920 wounded 55,144 missing 5,451 this is a total of 80,034 cas ualties mass biggest guns with the french armies in the field dec 31 â€” german gun factories are busy turning out heavy guns especially designed for open warfare the germans are said to be preparing for open battle and have practically quadrupled their heavy artillery the new av rage is eight and a half batteries for each infantry division they are producing an in crease of forty batteries a month the majority being long range guns two a viators killed at texas army camp san antonio tex dec 31 â€” h r gladstone of fort wayne ind civilian j instructor and cadet r a seguin of i rouse point oswego county n y j were killed to-day wnen their aero plane crashed to earth at kelly field cold wave takes 19 lives in new york new york dec i 31 ten more deaths directly tracea.ble to the cold j weather were reportrd in the last twenty-four hours making a total of nineteen in two clay i u.s patrol ship 2 english vessels sunk ax atlantic port dec 31 â€” a government patrol boat was sunk in collision with a japanese ship in distress off the coast to-day no lives were lost the crew of the argentine ship pampa ashore off this coast has returned to the vessel no gov ernment commission was aboard london dec 31 â€” the mine sweeping sloop arbutus and armed boarding steamer grive foundered during recent had weather after being torpedoed the admiralty announced to-day french take 1,400 austrians seven cannon and sixty machine guns captured in new offensive london dec 31 â€” the french ex peditionary force on the italian front yesterday took the offensive in great force and smashed back the austrian line near monte tomba capturing 1,400 prisoners seven cannon and sixty machine guns teuton positions between osteriade monfetenn and maranzln on the east end of the mountain line near its junction with he piave were cap tured in the french rush some of the austrian positions on monte tom ba also were stormed and captured counter measures are being taken against the french offensive says the official statement issued in vienna this is taken to indicate that the french victory was even greater than the french war office gives its troops credit for although both the french and british have been holding part of the italian line for weeks this is the first offensive either of italy's allies has assumed its succes has en couraged the italians immeasurably according to dispatches from the front i rosenwald to give jews million more new york dec 31 more than 750,000 in cash was to-day paid into the treasury of the joint distribution committee ot the american funds for jewish war sufferers the object of the payment was to fulfill the terms of julius rosenwald's offer to give 10 per cent on all moneys paid over for jewish war relief by decem ber 31 albert lucys said contribu tions on the way will complete the 10,000,000 set as the goal for lev ish war relief in 1917 and mr rosen wald will pay to the fund an addi tional 1,000,000 gibbons prays for peace in new year baltimore md dec 31.â€”car dinal gibbons to-day issued the fol lowing new year greeting to the american people as for the ameri can public i pray for a year of peace and prosperity i trust that the new year soon will see the advent of a permanent and solid peace through out the world plot on trotsky's life is reported new york dec 31 â€” a petrograd dispatch to the jewish forward says widely circulated rumors tell of an attempt on the lives of lenine and trotsky which was said to have been organized by the party of the social revolutionists the non-bol sheviki circles however describe these rumors as unfounded victorious new year berlin tells army berlin dec 31 â€” to-night's offi cial report issued from general head quarters ends as follows to all comrades a happy and victorious new year allied premiers to confer on reply lloyd george to cross channel to discuss terms with clem enceau sees victory british government to make se rious and seasoned answer to newest offer of enemy london dec ' 31 the british | government intends to return j a serious and seasoned reply to j the austro-german peace terms as j outlined at brest-litovsk when they j are presented officially this is the statement of the man i chester guardian in connection with | the announcement that premier lloyd george has arranged io visit france for a conference with pre mier clemenceau on the subject premier lloyd george in his let ter to the british trades union con gress indicated he was considering a restatement of britain's war aims but declared such action could only come through agreement with her allies in view of this his confer ence with foreign minister pichon is given additional significance bolsheviki free 14 interned teuton ships amsterdam dec 31 â€” the rus sian government has entered at once into execution of the provisional peace agreement reached at brest l.itovsk and has released fourteen austrian merchantmen totaling 41 000 tons interned in russian harbors one of the provisions calls for re lease of interned civilians exchange of war prisoners and return of mer chant vessels count von ilertling imperial chan cellor to-day received a delegation j from the finnish senate which asked for recognition by germany ot finland as an independent state the delegation was told this depend ed upon the agreement reached in the negotiations under way with russia different versions are placed on terms london dec 31 â€” an additional clause to the peace provisions reached at hrest-litovsk is given in dis patches from amsterdam the exact meaning of tnis is not clear but it however is interpreted as the most favored nation clause the german wireless version follows it was agreed that respecting all rights of intercourse and economic relations none of the countries which is a party to the peace arrangement shall be treated less favorably than any outside country in respect to which treaty rights do or do not ex ist amsterdam reports the clause as follows it was agreed that both legally and economically one country should not be treated less favorably by an other than any third country which cannot appeal to treaty rights the conduct of german delegates at brest-litovsk is praised by the german press the deutsche courier a pan-german organ says interests of the empire were represented as adroitly as possible for men in the : position of th delegates to do the deutsche tages zeitung for merly opposed to the conference now declares itself satisfied with the re sults the vossische zeitung does not think the german policy will bring about an endurable understanding with the russian people a world peace conference is socialist plan stockholai dec 31 cainillc huysmans secretary of the socialist internationale in ac knowledging a telegram of arthur henderson telling the demand of british labor to make the world safe for democracy urges a world conference ot socialists to pre pare for an early peace mr henderson urged the interna tional socialist bureau to com municate labor's attitude against a separate peace to russia paris dec 31 â€” premier clem enceau has declined to sanction the granting of passports to petrograd for socialist delegates who desire to visit the russian capital declaring a visit by frenchmen at this time might be harmful to the morale on the allied front george sees victory in 1918 new year's greeting to britain is promise of successful end to struggle london dec 31 â€” premier lloyd george in new year greetings to the british people and the viceroy ot india declares the allies are far on the road to victory and predicts the end of the struggle with the new year he asks the nation to work hard aid war loans and to be economical ere long he says this policy will lead to victory and safety for our people jlr lloyd george also sent mes sages to all the allies except russia expressing the good wishes of the british people cables to wilson to president wilson mr lloyd george cabled at this season 1 wish in behalf of the british war cabinet to send to your government and people a message of good will every day that passes must make us realize more clearly that the hopes of the human race center upon the triumph of our cause every day proves to us that our friendship for one another is be coming more and more the cement of that league of free nations which now stands as^lhe guardian of jus tice and liberty throughout the world thanks to thk navy we wish in particular to send a message of thanks to the united states navy for the great services it has rendered in the last year and of greeting the young american army now training lo take its place in the battle for human freedom we are relying upon the great addition this army will make . to strengthen the allies in their joint struggle for free civilization and we are confident that when the time of battle comes they win su tain the great traditions sol by their own forbears by helping to win a complete triumph tor the cause to which they have dedicated themselves in his greetings to the viceroy t india the premier says , we are far on the path tc tory despit'e many setbacks and disappointments i have good . â€¢â€¢>: s the task to which we have oi:i hands will have been com i achieved before this new is passed col moriarty hotne silent on retirement l'iio-'mi i commander ot the <<}â€¢] at am tilt i nois infantry now ' r h â– train i of the prairie 1 i at ' ; jh k^_i i^migwood at m his unknown america will join 1 ing serious fâ„¢j prepositions ffl u s discusses v england and ffl en offer undfl < t t tashixtitoi 1 w jm-^mw â€” ori lfl lituvsltf cwlc^^b 1 lrrouh'l bh station at nan en a^fsj^fl by the american v'fl sayville l i it to-night by the commitfflj information v ji imflj come from official ' eriflj germany's iction iih broadcast these rruposfl its government v i-elesflj accepted as further prifl sheviki erms were mfl many it is the near^b to an actual uubm ssloj^b the allies made by thf^b jfl expect wireleshh czernin dro-'o^jhg there is ion ts b officials will now send^h proposals made by co u flj which lie accepted thefl no annexation and no.l the allies and the fl are preparing their -'^| formal proposals that fl daily from one of the fl or from the de facto â– russia which has plc^fl endeavor to^.obtaiic an i the allies upon measurflj eral peace fl confidential exchan^r^h place between this ffl france and england b way of meeting the h by the bolshevik and flj it is admitted some o/fflj german-russian pro]'*ioÃŸ such a nature they can^h cast aside to reject jh an adequate reply fl very thing germany at accomplish â€” the a!icna^h members of the allies i u s attitude tofl proposals chang-ffl there is no doubt flj i epartment the objei^^h lloyd george's visit fl discuss peace with fl ceau jflfll the attitude flflfll i:ntt'_h undergone a h tion in the last i*am admitted i jh nortance are fl erences begun flj i")s=.'l 1 r j^fl at ak jfl at th jb trograd fl at j fl would at at _^_^__ â– page 3d cclumn continued on bth page 2d column lediv _.., l_f â€ž , motor cars c and motor truck are offered at bargain prices every day in the want ad section of the exam iner and the wiÂ»e motor car or motor truck buyer look here x before making his decision

Chicago examiner i'.s u rlsntomc price two gl~riÂ£'_%3bm tuesday Chicago january 1 1918 tuefcuai vol xyt xo j a m *"*â€¢'* hhb â€¢*? m * * >-\ ~"^ kaiser sends peace rade army gets machine guns next summer ie delay if untried browning j eapon fails crozier admits t inquiry cost 2,500,000.1 ly'll be ready in time fori feace hitchcock's comment i hwder plant delay is shown : h ashington dec 31 ma chine guns for the american Â»â€¢ array will be ready july 1 one year and three months after the ilnolaraiion of war they will not be delivered in any considerable attty until the middle of septem 1 r rnoleh rifle's to supply every in â– a*m and in hie training amps are promised by february 15 thil is hie net result of the jong . . re err ir tlie war department over t:ie merits of various types of machine guns the decision to adopt the un'ried browning gun in place of those used in europe and the dis cardinp of the springfield rifle for the en held geneial william crozier until re cently head of the bureau of ord nance n.ade tuese admissions to-day while tifying before the senate inilitar affairs committee ready in time for peace " says hitchcock e american army runs we may be s of peace com litchcock of ne ing general c'ro clmilted that there ich will postpone i beyond the dates d also that if the id fail to stand up have to be used would have to be ice the merits of the neral crozier said id purchased the ht to manufacture jer of these guns - admitted how had been accepted d that there prob considerable im lsses delay k tried to find out rtment at the be ir did not award s which were in er than experiment is reply was that the s unÂ«er examina ir was declared and sd the department gun obtainable ring the lewis gun id approved by the which had given " persisted senator did not the army also le that we would le supply of other 1 crozier's reply continued senator colonel lewis re discouragement in cud that the war ipent 2,000,000 on i which has never hile he had to de 18 calls u.s to supreme work says daniels washington dec 31 sec retary of war baker has issued the following new year's greeting the events of this last year will loom large to the future writer of our country's history there is given to us an oppor tunity that will not come again to make the story of the com ing year a record worthy of the cause in which our sword is unsheathed secretary of the navy daniels gave out the following greeting the year 1918 makes the supreme call upon the courage and efficiency of the ameri can people victory for the american ideal of free govern ment cannot fail but early and permanent peace will be se cured only by the full mobiliza tion of men and resources there must be but one in dustry in 1918 winning of the war there must be â€” there will be no thought of self no desire for profit no holding back of all we have in money and men lakes to build 400,000 tons hurley to ask hundreds of mil lions more for ships 11,000 000 tons by end of 1919 avashin'gton dec 31 â€” edward \". hurley chairman of the shipping noard next week will ask congress or a few hundred millions more of money for ships he expects to ex eed the billion dollar ship program t is understood plans for 11,000,000 tons of ship ping by the end of 1919 are in con templation and a survey of shipyard facilities to determine the quota from each has been made lakes ol'ota 400,000 tons great lakes shipyards are counted on ifor 400,000 tons expectations from other points are seattle 1 000,000 tons in 191s portland ore 32j,000 tons of wooden ships and 400,000 tons of steel ships san francisco's contribution will be 502,000 tons steel 22,000 concrete and 79,000 wooden while los angeles will add 335.000 tons to the quota of the pacific coast west easter than east on the pacific they are lurning hulls in fifty days while the atlantic yards take two or three times as long the reason for this is that the atlantic shipbuilders are accustomed to constructing battleships which are built with an inspector behind each riveter and without a time limit no such care is required for cargo car riers petrie arrested for a bductinghansengirl henry w petrie the composer was irrested yesterday at the point of a evolver in the office of his attor ney c h mcdermott 110 south dearborn street to-morrow he will ae given a hetning on a charge of ab lucting laura hansen seventeen from her home in elmhurst last july i he was lodged in the wheaton jail last night u.s weather forecast Chicago anij vici.vitv â€” geuer nlly fulr i'ii scl:i and probably wedne*dnj kloivlj rising trmpern tnre \\ indih becoming moderate aouth crlj tuesday temperaturb i'or twenty-four knurs encinc 2 a r : highest 20 lowest 10 menu 15 normal temperature for the day 3 deficitrcy since january 1 043 decrees prrciiiitatio^i for tventy-four hours 04 inch deficiency eince junuai-y 1 8.02 indies ui'latiie humidity 7 a ni 80 2p m 73 7 ' l'arunii'tric pressure reduced to son level : 7 a m o.:-v 7 p in 30.36 flunriso to-day w-xv sunset 4:o0 complete weather repoit on page 23 m addo picks hale hplden to run roads dissolves railway board and centers its power in hands of burlington head Chicago man p 1 virtually assures brotherhoods of wage increase abolishes pri ority and starts cojal moving washington dec 31 railroad director mcadoo dissolve sd the rail way war board to-day 11 e named his own advisory board t ' him rup the railroads 1 of the courltry a tg with dissolution ot the rlailway r board went abolition oi pjiorities the director general ivciund up his days work with an invormal an nouncement that he intended to raise wages of railroad employee only one of the railroad jexecutiv.-s on the railway war board i was car ried into mr mcadoo's j advisri y board this was hale hold jen presi dent of the burlington lie will be the single head of the operating or ganization that the railwaylwar board brought into existence hie other members of the advisory ho:krd are john skei.to.v william comp troller of the treasury who will con cern himself with mltread ; ijnrncc henry walters clia i-mnn f the atlantic coast line irsti will lie assigned to transportation jijroblem edward d chambers of the fuel administration vice president and general traffic aumi of the santa fe who will represent ihr food and fuel administration in thd direct or genernl's work walter d hines assisjtant to the railroad director lawt: s the task to which we have oi:i hands will have been com i achieved before this new is passed col moriarty hotne silent on retirement l'iio-'mi i commander ot the <